fragments from a monograph on the pole photographer bolesław okoniewski : los angeles part one

(malibu - part one)

some recently discovered photographs captured in los angeles by the polish photographer bolesław okoniewski, a trip taken sometime before his death (dates uncertain, most likely late 60s / early 70s).

okoniewski used the aleatoric technique of not looking through the viewfinder of the camera, with little or no attention to focus or exposure issues.

okoniewski's trip was motivated by the desire to be in the city that had been the home to artists such as john cage, marcel duchamp, kenneth anger, the many émigrés like thomas mann, bertolt brecht, oskar fischinger, kurt weill, billy wilder.... where hollywood cinema had had many great periods, and left many traces, and where most of the ed ruscha's photographic books had been produced (every building on the sunset strip, thirtyfour parking lots in los angeles, twentysix gasoline stations, some los angeles apartments, and royal road test (for its method).

(note : please view images in a black or near black room, no artificial light especially)

text and melody initiated by the reformer martin luther and his wittenberg colleagues

  
* the castle at cöthen (1717-1723) *
excerpt from the limited edition cd portion of the special edition lost beyond telling

constructed and edited by matthew swiezynski & the capellmeister in cöthen

using source material originally constructed by ingenting kollektiva
and originally mastered by taylor deupree
image by tarrl lightowler

"long, complex, emotionally charged pieces using a wide variety of techniques, including strong contrasts in instrumentation, dynamic level, texture, mode and key, repetition scheme, melody, harmony, rhythm, and occasionally even metre."
from malcolm boyd's oxford composer companions : j.s. bach (on chaconne, text by natalie jenne & meredith little)

for the limited edition, we have decided on an edition of 10 for $150 each
edition will include :

• a drawing by matthew swiezynski (40 minute drawing listening to fragments of night)
• photographic portfolio
• the cd * the castle at cöthen (1717-1723) *
• a small booklet
• synthetic horse hair fabric around the standard edition
• other items of interest, all enclosed in a lovely box

this limited edition of 11 will be the first of 3 different releases spread over the next year, more details to follow.

please email to reserve a copy at : invisiblebirds (at) gmail (dot) com

unseen, nightlong

images from forthcoming invisible birds special edition :
ib006ltd ingenting kollektiva lost beyond telling
limited edition of 12 copies, due sometime around august/september

edition will include :

• a drawing by matthew swiezynski (40 minute drawing listening to fragments of night) (above)
• photographic portfolio
• a small booklet
• synthetic horse hair fabric around the standard edition
• other items of interest, all enclosed in a lovely box (above)

price is still being determined, depending on expenses
please email to reserve a copy : invisiblebirds (at) gmail (dot) com
or for further details

shall i start with the day you sent me to lisbon?

ingenting kollektiva's fragments of night number 4 in mojo's vinyl countdown

(we all had to get the nod from mr. smiley)

music (some new, some old)
- j.s. bach - the english suites (angela hewitt) - hyperion - 2003
- evan caminiti - night dust - immune - 2012 (lp)
- frédéric chopin - complete mazurkas (arthur rubinstein) - cdo - 2002
- jesu - heart ache - dry run recordings - 2004
- jesu - jesu - hydra head records - 2004 (plus unreleased original vision)
- annette peacock - i'm the one - future days recordings - 1972/2012 (lp)
- radiohead - supercollider/the butcher - ticker tape ltd - 2011 (lp)
- radiohead - live bonnaroo - 2012
- simon scott - below sea level - 12k - 2012
- six organs of admittance - school of the flower - drag city - 2005 (lp)
- colin andrew sheffield - time will tell - quiet world - 2012
- robert turman - flux - spectrum spools - 1981/2012 (via gossamer)

books
- raymond carver - collected stories - the library of america - 2009
- david goodis - dark passage from five noir novels of the 1940s & 50s - the library of america - 2012
- a. dziewanski - epoch of humility

films
(updated here except for the bad ones)

image captured by mr. lightowler from michael mann/david milch's luck
ps - selling books on amz to pay for invisible birds releases, will put more up soon.

iboo6 loops

flusslandschaften

: listening to :

- oren ambarchi - audience of one - touch - 2012
- meg baird - seasons on earth - drag city - 2011 (lp)
- biosphere - mysterier - touch - 2011 (7")
- bohren & der club of gore - black earth - wonder - 2002
- taylor deupree - shoals - 12k - 2010 (7")
- dronæment - wassermond - drone records - 2000/2007 (7")
- fire! with jim o'rourke - released! - rune grammofon - 2011
- fire! with oren ambarchi - in the mouth - a hand - rune grammofon - 2012
- fly trio - year of the snake - ecm - 2012
- börje fredriksson - intervall - emi columbia - 1966
- from the mouth of the sun - woven tide - experimedia - 2012 (lp + cd)
- funkadelic - funkadelic - westbound/4 men with beards - 1970/2008 (lp)
- hildur guðdnadóttir - leyfðu ljósinu - touch - 2012
- ingenting kollektiva - lost beyond telling - invisible birds forthcoming - 2012 (12k mastered version)
- ktl - v - editions mego - 2012
- maeror tri ‎- the beauty of sadness - direction music/tantric harmonies - 1996/2005
- oöphoi ‎- static soundscapes: three lights at the end of the world - hic sunt leones - 1996
esp. space forest part 1: distant monastery
- organum - die hennen zähne - die stadt - 2005
- charlemagne palestine & janek schaefer - day of the demons - desire path recordings - 2012 (lp)
- pinkcourtesyphone (r. chartier) - foley folly folio - line [segments] - 2012
- the smiths - meat is murder - rough trade records - 1985 (lp reissue)
- the smiths - the queen is dead - rough trade records - 1986 (lp reissue)
- the smiths - louder than bombs - rough trade records - 1987 (lp)
- smog - forgotten foundation - drag city - 1992/2012 (lp)
- david sylvian - approaching silence - virgin - 1999
- talk talk - the colour of spring - emi - 1986 (lp)
- talk talk - spirit of eden - parlophone/emi - 1988
- talk talk - laughing stock - verve/ba da bing - 1991/2011 (lp reissue)
- mark hollis - mark hollis - polydor/ba da bing - 1998/2011 (lp reissue)
- tindersticks - tindersticks - this way up/plain recordings - 1993/2011 (lp)
- troum - ryna - transgredient records - 1998/2007
- troum - tjukurrpa (part one: harmonies) - transgredient records - 2001
- troum - tjukurrpa (part two: drones) - transgredient records - 2001
- troum - tjukurrpa (part three: rhythms and pulsations) - transgredient records - 2003
- troum - sigqan - transgredient records - 2003/2009
- martin bates | troum - to a child dancing in the wind - transgredient records - 2006
- troum - aiws - transgredient records - 2007
- troum - eald-ge-stréon - beta-lactam ring records - 2009

image from leonardo da vinci : das wasserbuch - schirmer/mosel - 1996
entry title : river landscapes

alchemy of suffering

matthew swiezynski - my heart, delirious with sound - 2012 (in progress)
titles from monsieur baudelaire

scentless apprentice

- bonnie "prince" billy - master and everyone - drag city - 2003 (lp)
- black swan - aeterna - ethereal symphony - 2012
- bill callahan - rough travel for a rare thing - sea note - 2010 (lp)
- the haxan cloak - the haxan cloak - aurora borealis - 2011
- gas - nah und fern (gas, zauberberg, königsforst, and pop) - kompakt - 2008
- thomas köner & asmus tietchens (kontakt der jünglinge) - 1 - die stadt - 2001
- john duncan / kontakt der jünglinge / c.m. von hausswolff - untitled - die stadt - 2007
- dickie landry - fifteen saxophones - unseen worlds - 2011
- my bloody valentine - isn't anything - creation records - 1988
- my bloody valentine - loveless - creation records - 1991
- nirvana - bleach - sub pop - 1989
- nirvana - nevermind - dgc - 1991
- nirvana - incesticide - sub pop - 1992
- nirvana - in utero - dgc - 1993
- nirvana - mtv unplugged in new york - dgc - 1994
- nirvana - from the muddy banks of the wishkah - dgc - 1996
- nirvana - nirvana - dgc - 2002
- nirvana - with the lights out - dgc- 2004
- nirvana - life at reading - dgc - 1992/2009
- sunn o))) - the grimmrobe demos - hydra head records/southern lord - 1999
- sunn o))) - 00 void - rise above/hydra head - 2000
- sunn o))) - flight of the behemoth - southern lord - 2002
- sunn o))) - white 1 - southern lord - 2003
- sunn o))) - white 2 - southern lord - 2004
- sunn o))) - black one - southern lord - 2005
- sunn o))) & boris - altar - southern lord/inoxia records - 2006/2007
- sunn o))) - monoliths & dimensions - southern lord - 2009 (cd + lp)
- susanna - wild dog - rune grammofon - 2012
- david sylvian - secrets of the beehive - virgin - 1987
- david sylvian - blemish - samadhisound - 2003
- david sylvian - the good son vs. the only daughter (the blemish remixes) - samadhisound - 2005
- wire - 154 - harvest - 1979 (lp)
- peter wright - orbit - install - 2012 (lp)
- neil young - zuma - reprise - 1975 (lp)
- neil young - american stars 'n bars - reprise - 1977 (lp)
- neil young - arc & weld - reprise - 1991

(things we have been listening to recently)

lost beyond telling

samples from the cd portion of the forthcoming oiseaux invisibles release :

everything is abyss (baudelaire), excerpt

ingenting kollektiva 

lost beyond telling : fragments of night as envisioned by johannes d'église, church mouse.

(ib006 - cd + dvd - 2012, forthcoming, also available in artist edition of 8)

material from ingenting kollektiva, ingmar bergman, and j.s. bach, modified and transformed by johannes d'église & matthew swiezynski, and mastered by taylor deupree.

titles taken from :
baudelaire, bonnefoy, prospero, messiaen, jaccottet, stamelman, ashbery, and d'église

images by tarrl lightowler

atlas of the photographs, collages and sketches

helmut friedel and ulrich wilmes - gerhard richter: atlas of the photographs, collages and sketches - d.a.p. in association with anthony d'offay london and marian goodman new york - 1997

post inspired by last night's viewing of corinna belz's film gerhard richter - painting - 2011

the something rain

recent recordings

- thomas bel - innerly - annexia - 2012 (lp)
- biosphere - substrata - biophon records - 2011 (lp reissue)
- anthea caddy & thembi soddell - host - room40 - 2012
- alex cobb & aquarelle - split - low point - 2011 (lp)
- karen dalton - 1966 - delmore recordings - 2012 (lp)
- miles davis - agharta - columbia records / 4 men with beards - 1975/2012 (lp reissue)
- miles davis - pangaea - columbia records / 4 men with beards - 1976/2012 (lp reissue)
- miles davis - dark magus - columbia records / 4 men with beards - 1977/2011 (lp reissue)
- gareth dickson - quite a way away - 12k - 2012
- gareth dickson - noon ep - 12k - 2012
- dirty three - toward the low sun - drag city - 2012 (lp)
- earth - pentastar: in the style of demons - sub pop records - 1996 (lp)
- earth - a bureaucratic desire for extra-capsular extraction - southern lord - 2010 (lp)
- earth - angels of darkness, demons of light ii - southern lord - 2012 (lp)
- en - the absent coast - root strata - 2010
- en - already gone - students of decay - 2012 (lp)
- gas (wolfgang voigt) - nah und fern (gas, zauberberg, königsforst, and pop) - kompakt - 2008
- ingenting kollektiva - lost beyond telling - invisible birds - 2012
- vikki jackman, andrew chalk & jean-noel rebilly - a paper doll's whisper of spring - s/r - 2012
- brian lavelle - just a song at twilight - dust, unsettled - 2006
- brian lavelle - fallen are the domes of green amber - diophantine discs - 2007
- brian lavelle - alessandri's dream - dust, unsettled - 2008
- brian lavelle - ustrina - afe records - 2008
- brian lavelle - supernaturalist - ee tapes - 2008
- brian lavelle - avalonian - apollolaan recordings - 2009
- brian lavelle - two ostensions - hooker vision - 2010
- brian lavelle - lambent - sonic oyster records - 2010
- brian lavelle - magdalena - diophantine discs - 2010 (lp)
- brian lavelle - empty transmissions - sonic oyster cassettes - 2011
- brian lavelle - hyperboreans - siren wire editions - 2011
- john lennon - john lennon / plastic ono band - apple records - 1970
- main - hydra-calm - situation two - 1992
- main - motion pool - beggars banquet - 1994
- main - deliquescence - beggars banquet - 1997
- mickey newbury / bill callahan - heaven help the child - saint cecilia knows/drag city - 2012
- lou reed - transformer - rca records - 1972
- daniel rossen - silent hour / golden mile - warp records - 2012 (lp)
- sigur rós - valtari - xl recordings - 2012
- the smiths - meat is murder - rough trade records - 1985 (lp reissue)
- the smiths - the queen is dead - rough trade records - 1986 (lp reissue)
- david sylvan - a victim of the stars 1982-2012 - virgin records - 2012
- talvihorros - descent into delta - hibernate - 2011
- tindersticks - the something rain - constellation - 2012 (lp)

(sounds like dirt xvi) i still can't remember how or where i lost my way

he came dancing across the water
with his galleons and guns
looking for the new world
in that palace in the sun.

on the shore lay montezuma
with his coca leaves and pearls
in his halls he often wondered
with the secrets of the world.

and his subjects
gathered 'round him
like the leaves around a tree
in their clothes of many colors
for the angry gods to see.

and the women all were beautiful
and the men stood
straight and strong
they offered life in sacrifice
so that others could go on.

hate was just a legend
war was never known
the people worked together
and they lifted many stones.

they carried them
to the flatlands
and they died along the way
but they built up
with their bare hands
what we still can't do today.

and i know she's living there
and she loves me to this day
i still can't remember how
or where i lost my way.

he came dancing across the water
cortez, cortez
what a killer.